An attractive and rare chart of part of the southwestern coast of England, including Lezard point, the northern coastline of Cornwall, Bristol, Newport, Cardiff, etc.

The map was originally engraved by Theunisz Jacobsz for his 1644 Lichtende Colomne, Ofte Zee Spiegel. This present example include the plate number W 13 and also the attribution By Jacob Theunisz Op't Water Inde Loots-man, making it an edition first published in 1666 by Caspar and Jacob Jacobsz's (who took the name Lootsman, to avoid confusion with their father.

Condition Description: Trimmed to neatline and mounted on larger sheet of 17th Century paper at an early date. Some soiling and discoloration in upper corners and along sides, likely the remnants of an early use at sea.